I think this is central to Harsha Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism—although I guess migration more generally. She has an older one called Undoing Border Imperialism
I’ve only heard her interviewed (I thought she was on Rev Left, but I’m only seeing Millennials are Killing Capitalism) and never read her work.
The one thing that really stuck with me was her mentioning, essentially, the huge asymmetry that exists between North/South migration; in particular that it’s much easier for a person from the global North (which is entangled with whiteness of course) to go wherever they like, but that huge barriers into the North are put up to stop racialized people from entering.
So now I see universities filling a role as de facto immigration officers when it comes to admitting international students, etc.
I think this is central to Harsha Walia’s Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism—although I guess migration more generally. She has an older one called Undoing Border Imperialism
I’ve only heard her interviewed (I thought she was on Rev Left, but I’m only seeing Millennials are Killing Capitalism) and never read her work.
The one thing that really stuck with me was her mentioning, essentially, the huge asymmetry that exists between North/South migration; in particular that it’s much easier for a person from the global North (which is entangled with whiteness of course) to go wherever they like, but that huge barriers into the North are put up to stop racialized people from entering.
So now I see universities filling a role as de facto immigration officers when it comes to admitting international students, etc.